A prosperous city begins with a thriving culture.
The Shack15 Art Prize supports Bay Area artists as visionary entrepreneurs: people who develop original ideas, take creative risks, and build sustainable practices around their work. By welcoming artists into the Shack15 community—a social club for ambitious builders—the prize provides meaningful, unrestricted support, connection, and opportunity.
The prize is rooted in the belief that a rich city must also be rich in culture. San Francisco has long drawn artists with its beauty, energy, and appetite for new ideas; too often, however, the conditions of the city make it difficult to remain. When artists can stay and grow roots here, San Francisco becomes a place shaped not only by ambition, but by imagination.
The Shack15 Art Prize awards $100,000 to one artist and $25,000 each to two runners-up who live and work in the Bay Area. This is not meant to be a lifetime achievement award. This prize is for emerging and mid-career artists who will use the prize money to further their careers. These unrestricted funds offer visual artists the freedom and financial support to continue making ambitious work and to make a sustainable life in San Francisco more possible. In doing so, the prize invests in artists, in the local creative community, and in the cultural future of the city.
From nominations to exhibition, discover the key milestones of the 2027/28 Shack15 Art Prize.
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Nomination Process
The prize cycle begins with a private nomination process led by a broad group of respected arts professionals.
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Artist Applications
A select group of nominated Bay Area artists will be invited to submit applications.
Prize Announcement
The recipients of the 2027/28 Shack15 Art Prize will be announced.
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The Exhibition
The selected artists' work will be featured in a dedicated exhibition at Shack15.
Claudia Altman-Siegel
Claudia Altman-Siegel is a Bay Area art consultant, curator, and private dealer whose work has helped shape the region's contemporary art landscape.
In 2009, she founded Altman Siegel Gallery in San Francisco, developing a 17-year program for internationally recognized, museum-level artists and organizing exhibitions that brought their work to audiences worldwide. In 2016, she moved the gallery to Minnesota Street Project, contributing to the emergence of Dogpatch as a major arts district. In 2021, she helped found the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) San Francisco, which opened in 2022 and expanded the city's platform for contemporary art.
Earlier in her career, Altman-Siegel served as senior director at Luhring Augustine in New York, a leading gallery for influential contemporary artists, and as a founding board member of the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), which supports the next generation of galleries and art professionals.
She has served on the boards of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) and the San Francisco Art Dealers Association (SFADA), and currently serves on the board of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). She is a Fellow of the American Leadership Forum (ALF), Silicon Valley, Class XLVI.
Jurors
Jenny Gheith
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Daisy Nam
Daisy Nam is the Zlot Family Director and Chief Curator of CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco. Her curatorial work often focuses on artist-driven projects through commissions, exhibitions, and publications. Her upcoming exhibition 3,345 Postcards: An Untimely Conversation with Rayyane Tabet and Jay DeFeo opens in 2027. Previously, Nam served as director and curator of Ballroom Marfa, a contemporary art space in West Texas dedicated to supporting artists through residencies and site-responsive exhibitions. There, she organized exhibitions including STEADY: Michelle Lopez and Ester Partegàs, Tongues of Fire, Ecstatic Land, and solo projects with Guadalupe Maravilla, Kenneth Tam and Donna Huanca, among others. Earlier roles include assistant director at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts in the historic Le Corbusier building, and assistant director of public programs at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where she produced seven seasons of talks, screenings, and performances. Curatorial residencies and fellowships include: Marcia Tucker Senior Research Fellow at the New Museum, New York; Bellas Artes, Bataan, Philippines; Surf Point in York, Maine; Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Korea. She holds a master's degree in Curatorial and Critical Studies from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in Art History and Cinema Studies from New York University. She co-edited Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts, and serves on the board of Voices in Contemporary Art. In 2026, she was selected as one of Eames Institute’s Curious 100 honorees.
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FEBRUARY 2027
SHACK15 ART PRIZE GALA